Bill O’Reilly, whom a Mother Jones report has accused of Brian-Williams-like war reporting exaggerations, has an unlikely defender: his long-time sparring partner, Jon Stewart.
Of course, Stewart’s “defense” was still heaped with insults aimed at Fox News. “No one’s watching them for the actual truth,” he joked. “You’re basically putting in a tremendous amount of work to say the emperor has no clothes, when the emperor has spent like twenty years going ‘look at my dick! I’m naked!’”
But he went on to deride Mother Jones for bringing “a magazine article to a TV fight,” noting their hapless responses to O’Reilly’s withering take-down of their publication. “That deserves a terse blog retort,” Stewart mimicked.
For his final point, Stewart turned more serious, suggesting that outrage is wasted on petty issues like this. Instead, he proposed, cover more significant scandals, like the fact that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu allegedly mislead the UN on how close Iran was to building a nuclear weapon.
“World outrage supplies are finite, and if we spend so much of it of the fairly inconsequential status embellishments, our anger tanks could be empty when we need them most,” Stewart said. “We might all be just a little better off if the exaggerations about covering a war get less attention than the exaggerations that got us into so many of them.”
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